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Nest.js: A Progressive Node.js Framework

By : Greg Magolan, Patrick Housley, Adrien de Peretti, Jay Bell, David Guijarro
Book Image

Nest.js: A Progressive Node.js Framework

By: Greg Magolan, Patrick Housley, Adrien de Peretti, Jay Bell, David Guijarro

Overview of this book

Nest.js is a modern web framework built on a Node.js Express server. With the knowledge of how to use this framework, you can give your applications an organized codebase and a well-defined structure. The book begins by showing how to use Nest.js controllers, providers, modules, bootstrapping, and middleware in your applications. You’ll learn to use the authentication feature of Node.js to manage the restriction access in your application, and how to leverage the Dependency Injection pattern to speed up your application development. As you advance through the book, you'll also see how Nest.js uses TypeORM—an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) that works with several relational databases. You’ll use Nest.js microservices to extract part of your application’s business logic and execute it within a separate Nest.js context. Toward the end of the book, you’ll learn to write tests (both unit tests as well as end-to-end ones) and how to check the percentage of the code your tests cover. By the end of this book, you’ll have all the knowledge you need to build your own Nest.js applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter you have seen how to set up the connection to the database by instanciating a Sequelize instance, using the factory in order to inject the instance directly in another place.

Also, you have seen decorators provided by sequelize-typescript in order to set up a new model. You have also seen how to add some constraints on the columns and how to use the lifeCycle hooks to hash a password before saving it. Of course, the hooks can be used to validate some data or check some information before doing anything else. But you also have seen how to use the @BeforeCreate hook. You are therefore ready to use a Sequelize transaction system.

Finally, you have seen how to configure umzung to execute migrations, and how to create your first migration in order to create the users table.

In the next chapter you will learn how to use Mongoose.